Retirement brings with it a certain amount of anxiety about how will you keep your mind occupied. Studies have shown that only a healthy mind can ensure a healthy body.
Yoga is the best way to keep yourself occupied for a few hours every day. It helps you in getting not just physically healthy but through meditation, it also relaxes your brain and gives clarity to your mind.
Most people believe that fitness is just about physical activities and don’t realise that it also helps in keeping our brain healthy and active.
Yoga teaches us to first relax our mind and then automatically we feel that our body is also becoming fit.
VIPRIT NAUKASANA
Procedure:
1. Lie flat on your stomach with your hands stretched forward and your chin on the mat.
2. As you inhale, raise your hands and legs until you feel a light contraction on your back. Hold the posture for 30 seconds to a minute.
3. If this is difficult, start with raising your right hand and left leg off the ground.
4. Exhale and hold this posture for 10-30 seconds and repeat the same with the left hand and right leg.
Note: This posture can also be done as a movement by continuously alternating between the right and left sides.
Benefits:
1. Strengthens the back and abdominal muscles.
2. Tones the leg and arm muscles.
3. Beneficial for people with hernia.
Caution: People suffering from severe backache must not practise this posture.
